Category: Language & Communication
It may be regarded as one of the commendable peculiarities of the English language that, despite provincialisms, vulgarisms, neglected education, foreign accent, and the various corrupting influences to which it is subjected, it may be understood wherever it is heard, whatever...
It may be regarded as one of the commendable peculiarities of the English language that, despite provincialisms, vulgarisms, neglected education, foreign accent, and the various...
2. Part 2=Delusion=, not _illusion_, when deception occurs from want of knowledge of the world, ignorance of business or trade, or from lack of acumen generally. Illusions are deceptions...
3. Part 3=Leg.= Of late years there has become quite popular a prudish notion that it is indelicate to say _leg_ when one of the limbs that supports the human body is meant, _limb_ being...
4. Part 4=Rinse=--rĭnss, not rĕnse nor wrĕnch. "_Wrench_ your mouth," said an uneducated dentist to a patient after _wrenching_ out a large molar. "Thank you," replied the patient. "_You...
5. Part 5=Muhlbach=--(Ger. Mühlbach). The u in the first syllable of this word is very difficult for those to pronounce who are not German or French, and can not be well represented in E...
6. Part 6When the orotund medical professor stands up to address his students, or to engage in the discussions of a convention, and rolls out technicality after technicality pronounced i...
7. Part 7than in any of the _products_ of his brain that he has given us. His brothers, _Eben_ and _Philander_, have become stage-struck, and expect to excel in the _Protean_ art. Their...